AN: The character Lauren has had her name changed to Lisa. Sorry about the mix-up.

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It's really amazing how quickly simply agreeing to everyday things can lead to a hellish problem that you can't talk your way out of. They had been merely rambling about various unimportant topics at that staff meeting, for the most part. Unfortunatley, at about the time he had decided to zone out and think of other things, they got down to business. Whenever someone talked to him he would just nod with a bored look on his face. The more he agreed, the happier people seemed. So he decided that if they stayed happy, they'd bother him less that way. It wasn't until Dumbledore announced that the meeting was over that he wondered exactly what he'd been agreeing to for the apparent half hour. Atleast, until McGonagall came up to him did he get a clue of just what he had gotten himself into.

"I'm surprised, Severus, You aren't usually so agreeable at meetings. I was especially surprised when you volunteered to run the Masquerade Ball this Halloween" Snape was just about to start agreeing again when it hit him.

"I beg your pardon, but I don't remember volunteering for any such thing."

"Which will teach you to not pay attention at meetings. Don't think we didn't notice" Snape did indeed have a very startled look on his face. It occured to him that even though it work quite well with Saria, the other Professors wouldn't be so easily fooled. "We decided that we should discuss the Halloween feast this year, to change a few things and make it a bit more fun for the students, we don't want them to think Hogwarts is boring, now do we? Either way, we decided on the masquerade and needed a coordinator. We were also getting very annoyed with you by this point and so we asked you if you would like to volunteer and you agreed saying 'yes, it's a good idea'. And Thus, you are now our Ball coordinator. Saria will be delighted to hear it" With that, she got a rather smug look on her face and she walked away, leaving a rather dumbstruck Snape to stand in the halls alone.

A few days later Snape had finally gotten up the courage to tell Saria about his predicament, only to find out that Prof. McGonagal had already tken the liberty. Saria had been overjoyed at the news, but dissapointed that he didn't tell her the wonderful new as soon as he had found out. For this he had been told that he must let her play with him. His hair was roughly brushed and elegantly braided that evening.

"Wow! These costumes are coming out great! I can't wait to see George in his!" Lisa was sewing on the last bits of George's Raggedy Andy costume while Saria was fixing her wig. The finished product was going to be rather...interesting. You see, since Snape was put in charge of the ball Saria and Lisa appointed theselves the costume-makers for those who wanted, and some who didn't want them.Ther list wasn't very many because they had for some reason forgotten to advertise this point. Most of the students were just haphazardly throwing together costumes anyways, many simply wearing street clothes and going as muggles.

"Yes! We're done!" Saria jumped and squeeled with joy and anticipation. "Go and find George while I start on Snape's costume. When you get back, we'll wrestle him into it and finish up. How's your costume going anyways?" Saria shuffled her feet. She hadn't been talking much and the reason was she had been thinking.

"Ummm...I still dunno yet...there's lotsa stuff I want to be, and then when I decide, another one sounds good too! I just don't know!" Saria's eyes were slightly downcast with her hands behind her back. Then her ears perked up. "Maybe Professor Uncle Sevvy can help? We'll get him all dressed up and he'll be so pleased that we made something for him that he's sure to hav a good idea!" Without waiting for a reply, which probably wouldn't come as Lisa was shaking her head at her, she skipped off to find George.

"Y'know, George, I wonder what exactly Lisa and that half-breed are planning for your tonight." Fred said casually as he washed his hands in the sink of the boys lavatory. "I mean, they only said that they were making you a costume. They wouldn't tell us what" George looked a wee bit thoughtful at the urinal.

"You know what, I never spent much time thinking about it. I just kind of decided to trust Lisa, she wouldn't lead me wrong"

"She wouldn't, but that midget would!" Came Lee's response from a stall.

"In a heartbeat!" Replied Fred.

At this the aforementioned 'medget' came bursting into the room like a whirlwind.

"HEY! WHAT THE-This is the BOYS lavatory! Get out!" Shouted Fred.As he threw a towel at her, which almost completley covered her. She let out a shriek, fought bravely with the towel, wrestling it into submission and then ran over to George, who as still a little busy at the urinal, and started pulling on him.

"YOU'RE George! You're the nice one who didn't throw evil towels at me! You have to come with me!" She began yanking on him harder.

"GAH! Err-hey! I'm more than a LITTLE busy at the moment! In case you havne't noticed!" Lee then came out of his bathroom stall and Saria wrinkled her nose.

"You are going to wash your hands, aren't you?" She replied, scarcley holding back a sneer. "And you HAVE to come with me RIGHT NOW! Lisa needs help getting her bra off!" She replied hurriedly.George zipped up his fly.

"Why didn't you help her? You're a girl and it would have been faster if you did it instead of barging into the boys bathrooms!" George said, not that he was complaining, just a little curious.

"Cold hands!" She said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world and held them up as proof. She suddenly got a wicked idea and turned to Lee. "Lee? I need a date tongiht to the dance! Will you go with me?" She asked with an almost uncharacteristic seriousness that made her very convincing. Every threat that was about to come pouring out of Lee's mouth about her intrusion died before they even got to his larynx with fear. Lee looked terrified at the prospect while George was hiding his snickers and Fred wasn't even about to try, he had already fallen on the floor laughing. Saria made herself look as sweet and innocent as possbile, and she was doing a good job since she'd had years of practice.

"Yeah! Go on Lee! You don't have a date and how can you turn down such a cutie?" Fred said while bending down to her level and pinching her cheeks. Saria jsut giggled cutley and clasped her hands in front of her. Lee swallowed noisily.

"O-Ok...but please don't hurt me!" He said quickly.Saria looked overjoyed and inwardly smirked devilishly.

"Great? What are you going to be?" Lee shifted uncomfortably, he was just kind of planning on going as a muggle. When he stated this he got whacked by a soap box that had been pulle down the wall. "NO! That is the lamest and soon to be most over-done costume in the history of Halloween! And we are doing a couples dress-up!" She sighed in exasperation as Lee swallowed once more and tried not to faint. God she was frightening. "We'll have Uncle help us decide on a costume and then I'll make them for us-" Lee wavered on the spot"-I'll find you when your's is ready and we'll meet in the great hall jus tbefore dinner." She finished and dashed out of the room, George in tow. Lee took this opportunity to fall over, out cold.

Lisa jumped when the door to the room that they had occupied, Snape's office since he was in classes at the moment, crashed open and a very enthusiastic George came in. Saria came skipping in afterwards, grinning madly. Lisa didn't even want to know what she'd said to get him to come.

"Lisa, Lisa, Lisa! I gots a date!" Saria blurted out happily and maliciously(if that's even possible). Lisa looked at her.

"Really? Who?" George started to crack up into giggles as he walked over and began removing her shirt.

"Lee! I asked him, he got all scared and said yes. Then he said don't hurt me but I'm a nice girl, so I don't know what he's on about!"

"...Lee? He actually agreed? Wow, never thought that would EVER-George! What the heck are you doing? Saria's here!" George had just removed her bra and looked puzzled. It wasn't hard to take off, why was she having trouble?

"Saria said I had to come and help you take off your bra because you were having trouble..SARIA! YOU LIED TO ME!" Saria giggled happily.

"But you had fun believing it! And you got it off! Bravo!" She began clapping. Lisa hastily put it back on with a muttered 'later' and held up his costume.

"To busniess!" George looked extrenely harrassed when he saw it.

"what's that?"

"Your costume, love! Go put it on!"

"You don't seriously expect me to wear that, do you?"

"Sure do!" Saria quipped.

"Yup! We're making Dumbledore a beer bottle and Snape a hot dog!" Lisa laughed. George cracked up.

All of a sudden George found himself being tackled by one and a half people, as Saria doesn't count as a full person. It was an interesting feeling to be both shocked and happy at having your clothing ripped off by two girls at the same time. In a record time he was redressed in his Raggedy Andy costume, he didn't need a wig. Saria appeared before him with a make-up kit and got to work without any explanation. Lisa laughed in the background. The site of Saria with a make-up kit was frightening enough, but even more so was his reflection in the mirror which she proudly held up so that he could admire her handy-work. She looked so proud of herself that he didn't have the heart to crush her with saying something like 'what the heck did you do to me!?' or something so cruel. Instead he tried to smile awekwardly and tried to say something nice and encouraging but all that came out was: "err...nice?" She looked overjoyed just the same and swelled up with pride. Lisa hugged him from behind.

"Awww! You look so cute!" She said, laughing. She then proceeded to pick up something very large, Saria carrying the smaller end. It was Dumbledore's beer bottle costume. "Well, we're off to deliver this and get Dumbledore ready for tonight.! Do you wanna come or just hang out here until we get back? We shouldn't be more than twenty or so minutes." George nodded, saying he would rather stay in here alone than be seen outside, just yet, he added at the hurt look on Saria's small face. She smiled happily once more and freed a hand to put her make-up case into her pocket. They proceeded to Dumbledore's office.

Snape rubbed his temples. This school year was shaping up to be the worst in his career. His deranged niece had come for schoolin gfor god knows how long, Lisa was back with George, the lot of them were wreaking havoc on the school, and himself, and now his classroom was a mess. He didn't care what anyone said or how hard that Longbottom boy tried, He was a nuisance and the msot inept thing in this school! What kind of name was Longbottom anyways?

He opened his eyes and looked at his now blue-fur-growing dungeon. His beautiful, dank, dark, previously not blue or furry dungeon. It was almost enough to make him cry. But no, he would not break down. He had dismissed the students, giving Longbottom a ton of homework on the potion and thrown himself down into his chair. He would have to have the house elves clean up this wretched mess.In the meantime, he had papert to grade back in his office. He would go there and relax with a tumbler of fire whisky to relax until this evening, where he would be subjected to the masquerade ball that he had been working on for the past few weeks. He didn't want to do it, but he had agreed, he had asked several teachers about McGonagall's story, the result always the same. He was a man of his word and so he had done his best to organize the events. He wasn't sure about a band though, some sort of music to have playing. Atleast, he wasn't until his abnormal niece had come bouncing up to him with a 'great' idea that she had come up with all by herself. He gave her a cookie for her efforts.

Her idea was to have a student band play. Once he thought about it, it wasn't really a very bad idea. He would never admit it, but he had heard a particular group of students playing when he was walking passed the boys lavatory. When he had questioned them upon their reasons for practicing in the bathroom the boys had all said, rather shiftily, that it had the best accoustics, besides the dungeons. They didn't want to bother him, they'd said, but he knew better. He ordered them to practice in the dungeons for the next few weeks so that he could sit in on their rehearsals while he marked tests and things, to make sure they would be good enough when the night came. They were more than happy to volunteer to be the entertainment, it would be there first 'gig', whatever that was.

And so everything was now planned. He only hoped that a particular group of misfits could stay out of trouble for the evening. No one had told him that he had to wear a costume. Thus it was indeed a surpise when he entered his office to find Lisa, George and Saria sitting on the floor with fabric, needles and bits of everything everywhere. He was about to walk back out when Saria latched herself onto his arm, what she could reach of it anyways.

"Ucle Sevvy! Uncle Sevvy! We just finished your costume!" What? He didn't thin khe'd heard her correctly. "We need you to try it on to make sure it fits!" No, it didn't seem like he had, but it was nice to hope anyways. "Come and asee! We worked really hard on it all day!" She showed him the costume. He knew hope was overrated.

He looked at the thing that she couldn't even lift halfway off of the floor to show him. She was holding a giant hot dog. He was disgusted. "You couldn;t make me something decent? Like a Vampire?" He asked, in a very dark tone.

"Sorry, professor, but all you're lacking in that field is the need to drink blood" Lisa said. Snape bit back the urge to say 'wanna bet?'.

"I refuse to wear that...that...thing." He crossed his arms. A small sniffling was heard in the room, behind th ehot dog suit to be precise. It was lowered to reveal the face of a very upset looking Saria, her eyes were brimmng with tears and her lower lip was beginning to tremble. Damnit.

"But....but...We worked so hard on it...We made it special for you..." Her voice sounded choked.

"Well too bad, either make a different one or I wont wear anything-" Two different sets of snickers arose "-ahem I wont wear a costume!" Saria looked hurt and she sat down with the costume, looking it over. She couldn't see anything wrong with it. He'd make a cute hot dog. Her sniffling hadn't ceased and some tears had started to fall noiselessly from her face. She looked back up at Snape with puppy dog eyes.

"Don't you dare cry over this!" He gave her his sternest look.

"But...what's wrong with it...I thought we did a good job..." Snape sighed.

"It's a hot dog Saria. A hot dog! I do not wish to wear something so embarrassing! And besides you can make something else just as easily as that" He stated. Saria shook her head and examined the stitching.

"No she can't, professor. The two of us made it. By hand, meaning, the muggle way. You know, with needles and thread? That was hand made and we don't have the time to make another, we have three other costumes to make and then four to deliver. We don't have any time to make others! Stop being such a jerk and just wear it! It wont kill you to wear it for one night!" Lisa exclaimed.

"First of all, it will kill my reputation and destroy my pride and dignity-"

"So park them on the shelf for a night! Atleast try to act like an uncle to her! She's never done anything to you!"

"on the contrary, she has done things such as this to me and I do not-"

"But you can just pretend we're playing dress-up, like we used to! It wont be that bad, Uncle Sevvy! Please?" Saria pouted at him. Snape's eyes widened at the looks of interest he was recieving from Lisa and George, who had remained silent throughout the confrontaiton. He quickly clapped a hand on her mouth.

"Don't ever bring that up around people again..." He used his most threataning voice on her. She wasn't phased. She grinned maliciously.

"Put on the costume, andI'll consider it" Snape looked outraged, how dare she blackmail him?

"You wont consider it, child, you will do it." Saria sighed innocently.

"Fine, I wont bring it up in front of people. Now will you wear it? ?I need to figure out what I'm going to be!" Snape sneered.

"Very well...why don't you just go as yourself? Or a pain in the-" Saria clapped her hands over her ears.

"LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I'M NO TLISTENING TO A TEACHER AND MY UNCLE SAY NAUGHTY THINGS! LA LA LA LA!" Snape could just about scream.

"It isn't like you don't know and say wose!" He shouted as he grabbed the costume and went to change.

Some time later, all the costumes were made and the people dressed and ready for the maquerade. It was going to be an interesting night...

TO BE CONTINUED!

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